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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where is the Ring of Fire located?
Atlantic Plate
Pacific Plate
Japanese Plate
North American Plate
- 2. Multiple Choice
Where is the largest abundance of US Volcanoes located?
Alaska
Hawaii
California
Washington
- 3. Multiple Choice
How does water get into the magma of Ring of Fire volcanoes?
There are springs and reservoirs under the volcanic magma.
The water gets into the magma from melting glaciers.
Seawater is carried with the subducting plate into the mantle.
The magma is basaltic and has no water in it.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What geologic hazards are caused by Ring of Fire volcanic eruptions? (Select all that apply)
Earthquakes
Volcanic Eruptions
Mudslides
Tsunamis
- 5. Multiple Choice
How are megathrust earthquakes generated?
Major volcanic eruptions causing massive displacement of earth.
Triggered by subduction as the rocks slide past each other at convergent plate boundaries.
Generated by the ripping of continental plate from oceanic plate.
Kaiju rising from the rift of the Pacific Rim.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Using GPS they are tracking the movement of North America. Which way is it moving and how fast?
4 inches east per year
2 inches south per year
3 inches west per year
9 inches north per year
- 7. Multiple Choice
What s driving the movement of the tectonic plates?
Gravity
Tides caused by lunar activity
Convection currents deep in the mantle
A giant turtle
- 8. Multiple Choice
What percentage of Earth's volcanoes are found in the Ring of Fire?
10%
25%
50%
75%
- 9. Multiple Choice
Carbon-12 is a common component of living organisms. Where did the Carbon-12 found in the volcanic gasses come from?
Phytoplankton from the seafloor sediment that has been carried down during subduction.
Animals that live in and around volcanoes.
Volcanic limestone melting.
Molecular reactions causing the loss of electrons from Carbon-14.
- 10. Multiple Choice
The largest ever earthquake in North American history occurred when and where?
New Madrid, Missouri, 1812
San Francisco, California, 1989
Los Angeles, California, 1994
Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1964
- 11. Multiple Choice
What geological features surround the Ring of Fire in the Pacific that aren't found in the Atlantic Ocean?
Mid-ocean ridges
Coral reefs
Subduction trenches
Hot spots
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why are Ring of Fire volcanic eruptions more violent than Hawaiian volcanoes?
The magma is more viscous due to increased silica and holds more gases.
The magma is less viscous due to silica and the gases escape easier.
The lava is more ropey and thin which is more explosive.
Methane in the lava causes it to be explosive.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What percentage of all earthquakes occur around the Ring of Fire?
25%
50%
75%
90%
- 14. Multiple Choice
Mid-ocean ridges are marked by volcanic vents called...
volcanic island arcs.
seamounts.
black smokers.
stratovolcanoes.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The loudest sound in recorded history occurred from...
the eruption of the Indonesian Krakatoa volcano.
the 1968 Great Alaskan Earthquake.
the Fukushima tsunami.
the Grateful Dead Wall of Sound.
- 16. Multiple Choice
This quiz is way too long because... (select all that apply)
too many people were talking and we should have policed our own.
some people can't go an entire period without making noise.
probably the same people who talk in movie theaters.
Mr. Story is just mean like that.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The most powerful earthquakes on earth are..
Strike-slip earhtquakes
Megathrust earthquakes
Volcanic earthquakes
Collapse earthquakes
- 18. Multiple Choice
Where are deep sea trenches found?
Along convergent plate boundaries.
Along divergent plate boundaries.
Along transform plate boundaries.
Around volcanic hot spots.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Subduction zones cause...(answer all that apply)
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Hurricanes
Tsunamis
- 20. Multiple Choice
Divergent boundaries are marked by what geologic feature?
Volcanic island arcs
Subduction trenches
Mid-ocean ridges
Seamounts
- 21. Multiple Choice
Hornblende found in volcanic rock is evidence of...
black smoker.
a divergent boundary.
the presence of water in the melt.
aliens.
- 22. Multiple Choice
What is the most dangerous geological hazard common around the Ring of Fire?
Earthquakes
Mudslides
Volcanic Eruptions
Tsunamis
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